The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
THRISSUR: Students of biotechnology engineering of Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology, Kodakara in the district, have come out with a novel project to convert elephant dung into useful bio-products such as paper, briquette, biogas etc. The project can made use to dispose the huge quantity of elephant dung generated …
Participatory rural appraisal techniques and a survey of 100 households were used to evaluate livestock production, and pastoral development of the Maasai in Mara. It was observed that patterns of land-use have principally changed from nomadic pastoralism to sedentary pastoralism, agropastoralism, and, in some cases, pure cultivation. These trends have …
With 99 per cent of the population consuming meat, milk and eggs. Nagaland imports around 19,000 tonne of meat, 5,000 tonne of powder milk and 275 lakh eggs annually. Revealing this during a State-level capacity building seminar on Agro-Marketing, Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act and General Rules for Regulations of …
The current wave of influenza A virus is linked to the way we produce food - in factory farms The current wave of influenza A virus is linked to the way we produce food
Kunal Bose / Mumbai May 5, 2009, 0:12 IST The World Health Organisation gives the assurance that there is no risk of infection of swine flu virus from consumption of
Felicity Lawrence Just as an unsustainable financial system caused the current banking crisis, the intensive farming of animals is at the heart of the swine flu outbreak. In modern disaster management theory, when any large system experiences a major shock or failure, you assess the risk, activate an ordered emergency …
New Delhi: Not only cooked pork but even processed pork products like ham, sausage, bacon and salami are safe to eat. So, feel free to gorge on your ham and salami club sandwich or a spicy pork vindaloo. With pork dishes fading away from restaurant menus worldwide, the World Health …
In a major initiative, the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) has decided to adopt French genetics and technology to improve the breed of non-descriptive cows through cross breeding for higher milk production. The experiment would be confined to non-descriptive breeds of cows only and in case of yields like Saiwal, …
This study aims to estimate the investment and return structure in rearing these goats and production of pashmina so that concrete policies regarding its development could be formulated.
AT A time when Australian commodity exports are collapsing under the impact of the global recession, India has provided some relief by opening up its market for branded dairy products from Down Under. With this, some of the big branded cheese products such as Bega and King Island will be …
PATHANAMTHITTA: Transport Minister Mathews T Thomas has said that the State Government will set up a cattlefeed factory at Karunagappally at a cost of Rs 39 crore. Inaugurating the valedictory function of the three-day dairy festival at Vechoochira near Ranni on Thursday, Mathew T Thomas said that with the setting …
